March 31
Ameena is out
read and write a one to two page response (due TUESDAY)

April 1
read Chapter 1: A Different Mirror (from A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki)
prepare for discussion TOMORROW
write lists of topics you'd like to study and topics you've already studied enough

April 2
Discussion of Takaki's work
Assignment (due MONDAY): make a timeline that includes ten events from your personal history and ten more widely known historical events. Create a visual that will be displayed in the classroom. Some websites that have timelines: http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html, http://www.animatedatlas.com/timeline.html, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_history

April 3
work time for timeline

April 4
Discussion of Martin Luther King Jr's assassination
here are two items that we listened to in class:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkivebeentothemountaintop.htm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89365887